15 years for triple shooting at birthday party
A 32-year-old District man was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for a triple-shooting at a young person’s birthday party.
Antonio Nero and about 50 of his family and friends were having an afternoon cookout party in the 1100 block of Morse Street NE in April 2010. During the celebration, three men drove into the alley where friends of Nero’s participated in a drug deal, prosecutors said. During the transaction, a dispute arose and Nero appeared in the alley and began shooting.
Children were playing in the alley when the shooting took place, though none were hit, police said. One of the shooting victims was paralyzed from the chest down, prosecutors said.
Feds: Counterfeit checks funded parties
A D.C. man has admitted to running a counterfeit check scheme to fund extravagant parties throughout the region.
Austin Davidson, 32, admitted that he led a conspiracy to create and use counterfeit checks in the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia. He would pose as an employee of the Carlyle Group and JPMorgan Chase to use fake checks to rent properties for area homeowners, according to prosecutors and court records.
Then, Davidson and others would throw lavish parties at the rental properties and serve thousands of dollars worth of food purchased using counterfeit checks. Davidson would also steal items — including personal checks — from the homeowners, prosecutors said.
Occupy protesters arrested at White House
Occupy DC protesters were arrested outside the White House, the U.S. Park Police said.
Eleven protesters were arrested Monday night because they failed to obey police orders to leave the grounds outside the presidential home, police said.
The group was demanding that President Obama veto the Defense Authorization Act, a $662 billion defense spending bill that would allow the president to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely.
— Emily Babay and Scott McCabe
